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Here is a shaky description of the manuscript. 5th Regiment Cuirassiers, since his departure from Hanover on 10 March 1809 until 14 October of that year. Slnd, petit in-4, [24] pp., Handwritten, paperback, Exceptional historical narrative of the campaign of 1809 by an officer of the 5th Cuirassier. The regiment of Saint-Sulpice Division, attached to the body Mass?na, including Abensberg of Eckm?hl and Regensburg, finally providing a relationship of the Battle of wagram where "5" had a supporting role. The text ends with an armistice and the peace of 14 October, when the command "Sulpice is replaced by Germain. From the beginning, the author tells us about his impressions. The crossing of Westphalia and Bavaria briefly described, it enters the heart of the matter we are making the first skirmishes with the Austrians at the end up the Danube in April and Eckm?hl where the Fifth Cuirassiers were distinguished. It was during this battle, we discover a curious fact which makes it particularly relevant to the manuscript, and it is known that prevails among the staff a challenge to the merits of tactical decisions the emperor: ...it is therefore, as a form of battle, these movements are made under the gun of the enemy. However, the Emperor sends a second order to the Colonel of the regiment to move on the position of Eckmuhl and prevail. The Colonel knows the field notes from the camp of His Majesty that the village is cut off, that protects the river, is surrounded by marshes and the roadway which is very close.... The charge is ordered and taken away by the courage so natural to a french, Colonel galloped.... what situation! What a time for a regiment! The famous charge of the evening of April 22, who offered the "laurels of glory" in the Fifth, had no real strategic importance but will have significant psychological impact on the enemy, until Regensburg. Equally exciting, the reading of the manuscript continues with the arrival at Vienna on 10 May, the magazine of the Emperor on the 16th, the participation of the Fifth at Essling battle with the prince of Montebello, and the Aspern maneuver where after pressing the Austrians, the regiment took the flag to the opposing side. The passage of the Danube Island Lobeau prevent the 5th Cuirassiers to participate in the Battle of Wagram in which the author does not fail to mention that the win goes to the "genius of Napoleon." The story finally ends the pursuit of the Austrians, whom the Regiment will be involved this time, having been ordered to cut all retirement before Hollabrunn positions Znaim. "No case has been so bloody and at the same time of such great importance." Essling such cost in effect to 21 000 French troops and 23 000 in Austria, the author often regretted the loss of horses The many dead and wounded officers were are cited in a beautiful expression, "mingled with a few cypress laurels. At every point, this manuscript very detailed, making these very lively glorious and bloody adventures, can be intersected with the many memories of the time, like those of General Marbot or of Bismark who salutes "the real moral power" of heavy cavalry regiments: "Brave as Cuirrassiers. Bibliography: Juzancourt, Essai sur l'histoire des Cuirassiers, 1886. Vial, Cuirrassiers History 5th, 1894 (which this paper provides guidance to the new tables of officers killed during the 1809 campaign.)

I've been checking on Niemeier and found this little footnote in a book. However the page that the footnote goes with is missing(Page 198). Looks like an interesting book. Benjamin Constant By Dennis Wood http://books.google.com/books?id=d6qbA4-eN...meier#PPA302,M1 Wolfenb?ttel, Nieders?chsisches Staatsarchiv, MS 264 N II s. 12 Nr 23, dossier entitled 'Papiere die Erbschaft Benjamin Constant's betreffend', Pouvoir donn? par Mr. Du Tertre ? Monsier Niemeier, notaire ? Brunswick pour faire toutes le d?marches de droit afine d'obtenir la cassation de son mariage avec Dame Comtesse de Hardenberg (cause indqu?e : Mr de Marenholz son premier mari dont elle est divorc?e ?tant encour vivant), sur papier timbr?, 5 juin 1807, unpublished; also Constant, (Euvres, pp. 637-8. Wolfenb?ttel, Lower Saxony State Archives, MS 264 N II, p. 12 No. 23, dossier entitled 'documents the heritage on Benjamin Constant's' given power by Mr. Du Tertre Mr. Niemeier, notary in Brunswick to do all the right steps to get the appeal of his marriage to Countess Lady of Hardenberg (cause indicated: Mr Marenholz of her first husband whom she is divorced is encouraging living) on stamped paper, 5 June 1807, unpublished; also Constant, (Euvres, pp. 637-8. 5 June 1807 - Just a week before the Battle of Friedland Maybe he lived in a castle http://books.google.com/books?id=_jYAAAAAc...p;lr=#PPT298,M1

I think its around 25 pages(untranslated). I hope to find someone that will be willing to translate it for a small fee.

I just got informed that I've got a diary of a French 5e cuirassier detailing his journey during the 1809 campaign(Eckmuhl, Ratisbonne, Essling, Wagram, ect...)on the way to my house. I can't wait That feeling of a kid in the candy store has not left me. It should be an interesting read. Is it monday yet.....

Interesting Stuff I found some other info, but its in German , so I'm not sure what I've got here. Maybe the same guy......... Here is the link to this stuff search Niemeyer http://www.stadtarchiv-celle.findbuch.net/...nd=be&id=28 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bestand: Best. 05 - Milit?rwesen VE: Verhandlungen mit dem Zollkommissar Niemeyer wegen des ?bernommenen Magazins, pp. Indizes Niemeyer (Zollkommissar) Bestand: Best. 05 - Milit?rwesen Klassifikationsgruppe: 07.03 Verpflegung, Kriegerfuhren und sonstige Leistungen Bestellnummer: 5 G 96 Dat. => Findbuch: 1803 - 1806 Index: Niemeyer (Zollkommissar) -Milit?rwesen -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bestand: Best. 12 - Gerichts- und Polizeiwesen VE: Zollkommiss?r Niemeyer wider die Schiffer Bockelmann aus Eilte und Sievers aus Inschede wegen Arrests. Indizes Niemeyer, Zollkommiss?r Bestand: Best. 12 - Gerichts- und Polizeiwesen Klassifikationsgruppe: 02.02 ?ltere Prozesse Bestellnummer: 12 B 85 Dat. => Findbuch: 1802 - 1803 Microfilm/-fiche: S.-Film 766 Index: Niemeyer, Zollkommiss?r -?ltere Prozesse Sievers, Schiffer -?ltere Prozesse Eilte -Gerichts-u.Polizeiwesen Inschede -Gerichts-u.Polizeiwesen Bockelmann, Schiffer -?ltere Prozesse Google Translate Inventory: Order 05 - military VE: negotiations with the Customs Commissioner Niemeyer assumed because of the magazine, pp. Niemeyer indices (Customs Commissioner) Inventory: Order 05 - military Group classification: 07.03 Meals, Fuhren warriors and other services Order: 5 G 96 Dat. => Reference: 1803 - 1806 Index: Niemeyer (Customs Commissioner) Military matters -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Inventory: Order 12 - court and police VE: Customs commissioner Niemeyer against Schifferstadt Bockelmann from Sievers and hurried from Inschede because arrest. Indices Niemeyer, customs commissioner Inventory: Order 12 - court and police Group classification: 02.02 Mature Processes Order: 12 B 85 Dat. => Reference: 1802 - 1803 Microfilm / fiche: p. 766-film Index: Niemeyer, customs commissioner older-processes Sievers, Schiffer older-processes Hurried Court-u.Polizeiwesen Inschede Court-u.Polizeiwesen Bockelmann, Schiffer older-processes

I did find this but not sure what it means. google books http://books.google.com/books?id=qsQsAAAAY...num=1#PPA339,M1 Eva Juliane Auguste Luise, geb 8 marz 1783, heirathet am 20. febr. 1811 Otto Carl Niemeyer, Amtmann 2 Reinhousen, und stirbt am 17 Jan 1845.

Hello Mossop, I've checked all my sources and have found nothing. I'll keep looking You might want to post this in the Imperial German Section. thanks, barry

The Massena Document. same or different

It looks sorta like Napoleon's writing but I don't think it is. Napoleon's Chicken Scratch on a 1814 document.

Colonel Escorches de Sainte-Croix Colonel: 5 May 1809 General de Brigade: 21 July 1809 Officer of the Legion d?Honneur: 31 May 1809 Croix would be cut in two by a cannon ball while in the Army of Portugal.(Battle of Busaco - 11 October 1810)

Hello, I had a great time at the auctions. I got the two that I was wanting for less money than I thought I'd be paying. I got the James Monroe and the Massena. I'm going to have to do some research on the officers mentioned. It will be a week or so before they arrive for a closer look. Marshal ANDRE MASSENA (1758 - 1817) "Massena" as Marshal of France and Duke of Rivoli, "in bivouac on Lobau Island" [Vienna], May 26, 1809. Just four days after the near-disaster at the battle of Aspern-Essling, in which a French advance guard managed to retreat safely in the face of an Austrian force nearly four times its size, Massena writes the Emperor Napoleon in French, to "request Your Imperial and Royal Majesty to reward the officers of my staff who distinguished themselves in the battle of the 21st and 22nd. For Colonel St. Croix, my aide-de-camp, the officer's cross?" and for his other aides-de-camp "Lieutenant Renique?the rank of Captain / for Lieutenant Porcher?the rank of Captain, for Lieutenant Massena?the Legionnaire's cross?", as well as promotions and medals for a number of other officers. The little note on the left looks like Napoleon's chicken scratch.

During this time Monroe was serving in President George Washington's administration. The document is signed just four days before Napoleon won at Lodi in the Italian Campaign. During the American Revolution Monroe served as a 2nd Lt. in the 3rd Virginia. He would be wounded at the Battle of Trenton. Wikipedia Photo

Hello, I just got this one. This doc has to rate as one of my favorites. thanks, barry James Monroe(1758 - 1831) Fifth President of the United States who negotiated the Louisiana Purchase and promulgated the Monroe Doctrine. Rare partly-printed D.S. "Jas. Monroe" as Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to the French Republic, 1p. folio, Paris, May 6, 1796, a diplomatic passport issued to Silvanus Bourne, U.S. consul at Amsterdam, countersigned by French Foreign Minister CHARLES-FRANCOIS DELACROIX (1741-1805). Delacroix served as foreign minister from 1795 to 1797. Monroe served as ambassador from 1794 to 1796 where he struggled to reconcile his own sympathy for the French Revolution with the Washington administration's strict policy of neutrality toward both Britain and France. Silvanus Bourne was the first to man the American consulate at Amsterdam. Appointed in 1794, he remained at his post until his death in 1817.

It might be the same person. Everywhere I look he has different intials. An Example: When I've gone through the old papers looking for French Marshal Lannes(Lannes, Lannas, Lonnas, Lasnes, Lanne, Lanse, ect...) and that's the French Papers. You would think that they would have got his name right. Henry Thomas Shaw H. E. Shaw R. Henry Shaw

Google Books The Battle of Waterloo http://books.google.com/books?id=k4dJAAAAM...qPxNovKNdv-tYUC Notice the note at the bottom of the page.

I would guess that the officer in the miniature portrait is Captain Henry Thomas Shaw. Lt. Col. Henry Thomas Shaw(21 Feb 1788/ 20 June 1832) Admiral Sir George Cockburn(1772-1853) was given the credit for burning down the White House. I just can't see a British Captain running around with a torch. A very ungentlemanly act. Maybe orders down the chain Admiral to Colonel to Major to Shaw to Lt. to Sargent to Corporal to Private. But then again maybe he did torch it. Battle of Waterloo/ List of Officers 4th Foot Lt. Col. F. Brook Captains Capt. H. T. Shaw Wilson Edgell Wood Fletcher Erskine Craig Kirwan Browne

Battle of New Orleans Names of Officers killed, wounded, and missing, in the action of the 8th of January 1815. Capt. H.E. Shaw, 4th Foot (British Marines) (slightly wounded) another pub. listed as Capt. Henry Thomas Shaw 4th Foot (Brigade Major) (slightly wounded) another pub. History of the war in France and Belgium, in 1815 List of Captains in the 4th Foot 4th Foot - Lt. Col. F. Brook 4th Foot - Capt. H. T. Shaw remaining Captains in the 4th in 1815 Wilson Edgell Wood Fletcher Erskine Craig Kirwan Browne September 1825 Major Shaw, 4th Foot, to be deputy quartermaster-general in the Windward and Leeward Islands, with rank of Lt. Col. in the army

Hello les, Post it along with anything else you have on him.

I'll have to see if I can find any info on Joseph Dupar. I have a print of the Marqui but its not as nice as the picture on wikipedia.

I've been waiting along time for a document like this one signed by Lafayette. Since I started collecting I've kept an eye out for one of his documents. The ones that pop up are always dated in th 1820's, which just isn't the same as the one that came knocking. The document is signed as commander of the Paris National Guard and dated the 1st of September 1789. This was just six weeks after the stroming of the Bastille. The document is a commission to Lieutenant in the Paris National Guard. Commission for Second Lieutenant, First Division, Fourth Battalion, Dequet Company, Paris National Guard. We, Mayor of the city of Paris, with consideration to the motion put to us by the Commander-General of the Parisian National Guard and to the favorable testimony given us of the patriotic ardor, of the intelligence and of the good behavior of one Joseph Dupar, former Sergeant?we?appoint him Second-Lieutenant?to fulfill the duties attached to that rank, and enjoy all honors, rights, remuneration and emoluments attached to that rank?Executed in the Paris City Hall, September the First, seventeen hundred eighty-nine?. The document is also signed by - Paris mayor Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736-1793) Joseph-Leonard Poirey who was Lafayette's aid during the American Revolution. Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_du_Mo...is_de_Lafayette Lafayette spoke for the last time in the Chamber of Deputies on 3 January 1834. The winter was wet and cold, and the next month he collapsed at a funeral from pneumonia. Although he recovered, the following May was wet and, after a thunderstorm, he became sick and bedridden. On 20 May 1834, Lafayette died. He was buried next to his wife at the Cimeti?re de Picpus under soil from Bunker Hill, which his son Georges sprinkled upon him. King Louis-Phillipe ordered a military funeral in order to keep the public from attending. Crowds formed to protest their exclusion from Lafayette's funeral. American President Andrew Jackson ordered that Lafayette be accorded the same funeral honours as John Adams and George Washington. Therefore, 24-gun salutes were fired from military posts and ships, each shot represented a U.S. state. Flags flew at half mast for thirty-five days, and "military officers wore crape for six months". The Congress hung black in chambers and asked the entire country to dress in black for the next thirty days.

Are you sure it's the 4th and not the 44th. Or maybe a typo. I found this fella at Waterloo. Captain Jason Shaw - 44th Foot R Shaw :speechless:

This print shows three medals

Wikipedia http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_von_Degenfeld-Schonburg August Franz Johann Christoph Graf von Degenfeld-Schonburg (auch Schomberg; * 10. Dezember 1798 in Gross-Kanicsa (Nagykanizsa), Ungarn; ? 5. Dezember 1876 in Altm?nster bei Gmunden) war ein ?sterreichischer Feldzeugmeister. Degenfeld-Schonburg war ein Spross des Adelsgeschlechts der Grafen von Degenfeld-Schonburg und Urenkel des preu?ischen Kriegsministers Christoph Martin II. von Degenfeld (1689-1762). Er nahm am Feldzug 1815 als Offizier der Infanterie teil, wurde 1835 Major und war mehrere Jahre Adjutant beim Generalkommando in B?hmen. 1848 f?hrte er als Generalmajor eine Brigade und war 1849 wirksam an der Schlacht von Novara beteiligt. Im Oktober 1849 wurde Degenfeld-Schonberg zum Feldmarschallleutnant bef?rdert. Er war danach zun?chst Vizegouverneur von Mainz, 1850 wurde er Sektionschef im Kriegsministerium. Kaiser Franz Joseph zog ihn 1852 zur Dienstleistung heran, bevor er 1855 Kommandeur des 8. Armeekorps wurde. Im Italienischen Krieg 1859 erhielt er als kommandierender General das Oberkommando im K?stenland. Im Oktober 1860 wurde Degenfeld-Schonberg zum Feldzeugmeister und Kriegsminister ernannt, legte aber 1864 sein Amt aus Gesundheitsgr?nden nieder. W?hrend des Deutschen Krieges 1866 trat er vor?bergehend wieder in den aktiven Dienst ein und vereinbarte am 26. Juli 1866 die Waffenstillstandskonvention von Nikolsburg. August Graf von Degenfeld-Schonburg starb am 5. Dezember 1876 in Altm?nster bei Gmunden. Nach Feldzeugmeister Degenfeld-Schonburg wurde ein ?sterreichisches Festungswerk im damaligen Welschtirol benannt. Es liegt auf einem Bergr?cken oberhalb der Ortschaft Piovezzano ?stlich der Autobahn Trient - Verona etwa auf der geografischen H?he von Lazise. Auf italienischen Karten ist es als ?ex Forte Degenfeld? ausgewiesen. Wiki Photo

If I had any money I'd put it on this guess. Anton served under General Kruse at Waterloo. This brigade was stationed at the Ch?teau d'Hougoumont(farmhouse) and took heavy casualties on the 18 of June 1815. I believe this is where Anton was wounded. The only problem with this guess is that the Nassua soldiers at the farmhouse was commanded by Captain B?sgen and Anton was a major. However the Captain was an infantry officer while Anton was an engineer. I think Anton was sent along with brigade not to command but to check the fortication. The only place an engineer could have been used at Waterloo would have been the farmhouse. Breidbach-Bűrresheim, Major ? la suite Anton Philipp von; Adjutant-Volunteer Nassau contingent; wounded 18 June 1815 (1791- )(KB No.7, 25 February 1816)

Geschichte der K. Und K. Technischen Milit?r-akademie By Friedrich Gatti Eingetheilt am 24. Sept. Kostgeben p.r. 520 fl. Am 9 Mai 1809 F?hnrich im Inf. Reg. Gyulai (Nr. 60) Eingetheilt on 24 Sept. Kostgeben p.r. 520 fl. On May 9, 1809 Ensign in Inf Reg Gyulai (No. 60) Their were two General Gyulai who fought in 1809. One in Italy and one in Austria. I wonder if he participated in any action during 1809. The 1809 campaign is my FAVORITE.